YouList – YouTube playlist shortcode

Descripción

This plugin adds the shortcode [youlist] so you can easily embed YouTube™ playlist defined by

• playlist id (PL in front of the playlist id)
• comma seperated video ids list
• user favorites
• user uploads
• search query

in a single YouTube™ player.

Live demo

New in version 1.0.6

• show random playlists with the new attribute ‘randompid’
• added apply_filters for output, style, class and src
• bug fix

New in version 1.0.5

• enable nocookies
• enable the https protocol
• play videos in a specific quality (fx. hd720)
• enable wmode to handle z-index issues.

Usage Examples

To embed a playlist with thumbnails
[youlist pid=»PL3FF15AA7ED356D9F»]

To embed three videos with thumbnails (comma seperated video id list):
[youlist vid=»ZF_K8D414-Y,sFHXWoawnt0,E2uOGOqIyC4″]

To embed three videos without thumbnails:
[youlist vid=»ZF_K8D414-Y,sFHXWoawnt0,E2uOGOqIyC4″ showinfo=»0″]

To embed a playlist from the search string «higgs boson»
[youlist search=»higgs boson» width=»600″ height=»400″]

To embed a random playlist
[youlist randompid=»PL3FF15AA7ED356D9F, PL9AEE7FF9E83DEA62, PL2B8DB1BD4364033F»]

To embed a playlist for all uploaded videos for the user «mismag822″
[youlist uid=»mismag822″ listtype=»user_uploads»]

To embed a playlist for all favorite videos for the user «mismag822″
[youlist uid=»mismag822″ listtype=»user_favorites»]

To embed a playlist width your own custom style
[youlist pid=»PL3FF15AA7ED356D9F» style=»width:300px;height:400px;z-index:1;»]

To embed a user playlist with all the supported attributes (default values shown):
[youlist
uid=»mismag822″
randompid=»»
showinfo=»1″
width=»680″
height=»480″
class=»youlist»
autohide=»2″
autoplay=»0″
disablekb=»0″
listtype=»user_uploads»
theme=»dark»
modestbranding=»1″
controls=»1″
color=»red»
fs=»1″
rel=»1″
start=»0″
loop=»0″
iv_load_policy=»1″
version=»3″
style=»»
vq=»»
nocookie=»0″
https=»0″
wmode=»»
parameters=»»
]

Ideas for how to use this plugin

1. You can use it to display ad-video before or after the main video
2. You can have your own short trailer before the main video
3. You can collect lessons/tutorials/music videos
4. You can use it for your YouTube™ playlist
5. You can watch your friends favourites videos
6. You can collect videos for your kid and watch it on your site
7. … etc …

Shortcode Parameters

The youList-shortcode is a wrapper for most of the YouTube™ iframe parameters described here:

https://developers.google.com/youtube/player_parameters

iframe parameters:

• width [integer] – iframe width in pixels
• height [integer] – iframe height in pixels
• class [string] – iframe css classname
• style [string] – iframe css custom style
• parameters [string] – custom source parameters (&param1=value1&…)

youtube parameters:

• pid [string] – YouTube playlist ID
• uid [string] – YouTube user ID)
• vid [string] – Comma seperated YouTube Videos ID list
• randompid [string] – YouTube random playlist ID, from a comma seperated PID’s list
• listtype [playlist|user_uploads|search] – YouTube listtype
• search [string] – YouTube search string)
• theme [dark|light] – Dark or light control bar
• modestbranding [0|1] – Prevent the YouTube logo from displaying in the control bar
• showinfo [0|1] – Display thumbnail images for the videos in the playlist
• autohide [0|1|2] – Hide the video controls automatically after a video begins playing
• autoplay [0|1] – The initial video will autoplay when the player loads
• disablekb [0|1] – Disable the player keyboard controls
• controls [0|1|2] – Display the video player controls
• color [red|white] – The color in the video progress bar
• fs [0|1] – Display the fullscreen button
• rel [0|1] – Show related videos when playback of the initial video ends
• start [integer] – Play the video at the given number of seconds from the start of the video
• loop [0|1] – Play the entire playlist and then start again at the first video
• iv_load_policy [1|3] – Show video annotations
• version [2|3] – AS player version
• https [0|1] – Enable the https protocol
• nocookie [0|1] – No cookies thank you
• vq [small|medium|large|hd720|hd1080] – Change video quality